The Gardner Heist

The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

Ulrich Boser

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HarperPaperbacks
01 April 2010

Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks; True crime

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces. The theft has become one of the nation's extraordinary mysteries. Art detective Harold Smith worked the theft for years. This work explores his unfinished leads.

By: Ulrich Boser
Imprint: HarperPaperbacks
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780061451843
ISBN 10: 0061451843
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 April 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ulrich Boser has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Smithsonian magazine, Slate, and many other publications. He has served as a contributing editor at U.S. News and World Report and is the founding editor of The Open Case, a crime magazine and web community. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews for The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

Boser poetically contrasts the burning, almost unnatural desire art loversfeel for paintings with the cold reality that art theft is one of the easiestand most lucrative types of crime. -- Kirkus Reviews